Is it possible to request NOT to have a particular teacher for a subject

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In yr 10.

I have requestred in year 4, year 7 ad year 8.

Independant school

Ooh - I would like to know the answer to this as well (see earlier posts about DS1's Statistics GCSE!)

whoops

Indpendent

Nearly

state school

crap history teacher but lovely woman,really want her to have another one who dd thinks is fab and inspires all her students.

You can ask, but the timetabeling in secondary is quite complex.

Do you know for sure that she will be taeching any year 10?

For example this next year I'm teaching year 10 and year 7,but no-one in years 8 and 9.

No harm is asking, just don't be s=disapointed

dd asked the teacher she wants if she was teaching her class next yr and she said only if her Alevel timetable allowed it and she wasn't hopeful.DD assuming this other one will be doing it,there have been complaints about her.

Would an email to head be appropriate?Feel awkward naming her.

Thiey will not be re-arranging the time table at this stage in the game. It takes months to get it sorted. A level planning often takes precidence. then GCSE, then lower school.

i would write a note saying, 'If Mrs X is teaching GCSE this year, dd would love to be in her form'

I wouldn't write 'We don't want Mrs Y'

You can request, but as previously said, timetabling is incredibly complex and time consuming. It is like some horrible massive algebra equation.

When DD3 was choosing her options in year 9 for year 10 they were all told not just to choose a subject because they liked the teache,because the timetable would be different in year 10 and a different teacher might be teaching the subject. So in the answer to your question you can try but it might not be possible.

We've been told that too, mumeeee. We get the opposite as well, where a child chooses not to do a particular subject in case they get the dreaded old bag (a lot of Y9s have heaved a huge sigh of relief because a language is compulsory at ours and one of the language teachers is retiring this term )

The person who always used to do the timetabling for the whole school was a confirmed bachelor - I don't think anyone else had the time! (I don't know how they do it now - mb, is it computerised? Incredibly complicated, esp in a school which does A levels too, but on a different site)

good suggestion MB,will have a stab at that,can't do any harm.
Thanks for the replies